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Navigational Acts
Declared that only English ships are allowed to enter England. Only North American colonies could export commodities to England, no one else. -
End of Salutary Neglect
One of the main causes of the American revolution. Ended after the French and Indian war. Making Britain reinforce the Navigational Acts. -
Proclamation of 1763
It closed down colonial expansion westward beyond the Appalachia. It was the first measure to affect all 13 colonies -
Sugar Act
All foreign Molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum -
Stamp Acts
1st internal tax was levied directly on American colonists by the British Parliament. Imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies, and it was used as a source of revenue for Britain. -
Townshed Acts
A series of measures passed by British parliament. Taxing goods such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the American colonies -
Committees of Correspondence
A emergency provisional government set up in the 13 colonies in response to British policies -
1st Continental Congress
Comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the intolerable acts -
Patrick Henry "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech
It fired up the American fight for independence -
Lexington & Concord
It kicked off the start of the American Revolution -
2nd Continental Congress
Convened after the Revolutionary War had already begun, it took the momentous step of declaring America's independence from Britain -
Thomas Paine "Common Sense"
The pamphlet that set forth his arguments in favor of American independence -
Declaration of Independence
1st formal statement by a nations people asserting their rights to choose their own government